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HISAT2 Kim D, et al. Graph-based genome alignment and genotyping with HISAT2 and HISAT-genotype. Nature Biotechnology 37, 907–915, 2019. doi:10.1038/s41587-019-0201-4
Salmon Patro R, et al. Salmon provides fast and bias-aware quantification of transcript expression. Nature Methods 14, 417–419, 2017. doi:10.1038/nmeth.4197
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samtools Danecek P, et al. Twelve years of SAMtools and BCFtools. GigaScience 10(2):giab008, 2021. doi:10.1093/gigascience/giab008
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GraphAligner Rautiainen M, Marschall T. GraphAligner: rapid and versatile sequence-to-graph alignment. Genome Biology 21:253, 2020. doi:10.1186/s13059-020-02157-2